Chinantec
Language Information
Chinantec is spoken in southern Mexico, in northern Oaxaca and neighboring Veracruz.
Chinantec is a group of about a dozen Oto-Manguean languages with about 140,000 speakers. It is one of the most complex tonal languages in the world, and some communities use a whistled form of the language to communicate across distances.
Chinantec is a group of about a dozen Oto-Manguean languages with about 140,000 speakers. It is one of the most complex tonal languages in the world, and some communities use a whistled form of the language to communicate across distances.
- Language Family
- North American Indian
- Subgroup
- Oto-Manguean
Chinantec Language Sample
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1
Chinantec, Ojitlán
La juu dsa lu siä –Dsa kö ñi ba dsa, nía kö ni' ba na lu' dsa e dsa tï é li jnia' roö'.English translation
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Source: OHCHR translations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights